“Twitch’s most foul-mouthed streamer”. She doesn’t even break into the top 10000, lol. Though she is far more charming and entertaining than most of them.

I can understand not wanting to share confidential medical documents, but the complete absence of anything to back up a lot of other very extreme claims besides the Tourette’s (sick but gorgeous mother, house full of animals she tends to, year raised by hippies...) makes me pretty suspicious.

The counterpoint is…

How does push to talk allow her to mask involuntary tics?

In her own mind. 

I think “maybe” she Tourettes. But since the just happens to have the rarest form it makes me suspicious. Especially since she cannot prove it. Heck if a news journalist privately approaches you and wants to see proof then you think you would show them this way haters would be proven wrong.

I honestly believe she uses…

With push-to-talk, I could completely edit out all of my tics.

I agree, the story was fascinating and well-written, but it seems like there was more digging that could have been done at the expense of alienating Anita, and Cecilia made the choice not to do it. It’s hard to believe that a Twitch neophyte could show up with a manager and an account completely divorced from her real…

There are so many red flags.

yeah, the fact she is on Twitch and under the impression that she is being autobiographical she has forgone any right to privacy. she is making herself a public figure and all that goes with it.

i don’t know her from Adam and apparently no one else does either.

Your blind belief in a completely bullshit story also says a lot about you. 

That he’s not a completely gullible rube?  This story has red flags flying all over the damn place.

Yeah a lot that doesn’t add up here

Since when does Tourette’s turn you into a compulsive liar? 

okay no fucking way am I reading this, but: her whole thing is 100% made up

I’m a little of two minds about this. On the one hand, it’s a fascinating story (and very well-written), and you do include lots of caveats about the inability to verify the account, and so part of me thinks it would be a shame to miss out on it.

Wait...she has a manager?

“If she tics too much, she says, it exacerbates an autoimmune disorder that causes her to vomit blood.” This is completely fictional and Kotaku should be embarrassed for publishing it. Seriously, it’s some flat earth level bullshit you’ve got here.

...uhuh. Pretty convenient. Person just sounds like a compulsive liar seeking attention. 

Delaying purchase is generally a good move these days anyway, just so that you can dodge all the bugs that games tend to be released with. Leave it three months and you’ll probably have a much less stressful experience.